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Article #19223Re: N.B.S. Time Service
From: Alan Wm Paeth
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1988 15:09
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1988 15:09
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In article <455@trane.UUCP> cook@trane.UUCP (Eric Cook) writes: > > Your tax dollars at work...... > I found this in Sky & Telescope. If you are doing projects requiring >your computer syncing with UTC, this is for you. The phone number is >(303) 494-4774, they are to add a 900 number in the future... >[discussion of time signals via 1200 modem follows]. As I recall the current telephone number arrangement is truly by "land-line" -- the NBS has arranged with Bell that the signals not be routed via satellite, as the speed of light path delay becomes a significant fraction of a second. These guys are always "on guard for purity", and seem to do a good job at that. /Alan Paeth Computer Graphics Laboratory University of Waterloo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!killer!tness7!bellcore!clyde!watmath!watcgl!awpa From: awpaeth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alan Wm Paeth) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.astro,comp.dcom.modems,comp.misc,rec.ham-radio Subject: Re: N.B.S. Time Service Message-ID: <4691@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 3 Jun 88 15:09:41 GMT Article-I.D.: watcgl.4691 References: <455@trane.UUCP> Reply-To: awpaeth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alan Wm Paeth) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16